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Faith Communities Today 2005 Study

The multi-faith coalition of denominations and faith groups that conducted the Faith Communities Today 2000 national survey of congregations in 2004 formalized their continued partnership as a membership-based program housed within the Hartford Seminary Institute for Religion Research. The Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership that developed out of that effort has several programmatic goals:

(1)Creating and testing a financially viable methodology for regular national survey of congregations, each survey to include three layers of questions:
a. A repeated set of items to track changes and trends,
b. A specific set of topical items tied to a congregational resource, and
c. A unique set of new items of immediate public interest.

(2) Creating an ongoing informative newsletter.

(3) Developing an approach to congregational resources that begins with a congregational situation requiring self-reflection, and then builds a topical module of supporting national survey items for inclusion in one of the biennial surveys, the results from which get built back into the congregational resource.

As a result the team then undertook and created the first survey in this series, Faith Communities Today 2005 Survey. These survey results are posted in the summary pdf report.